Arts Administration

Arts Administration Internships

An arts internship is the cornerstone to a successful education in Arts Administration. Students choosing to minor in Arts Administration at Le Moyne College are required to complete a 140-hour internship, which carries 3 academic credits and is listed in course listings as AAD 490 (Arts Administration Internship). Internships vary in their scope and the types of skills needed will also vary widely. Students are encouraged to seek out an internship that aligns with their career goals.

In order to register for the internship, students will need to have completed AAD 201 (Arts Administration I).

Below is a list of sample internships, both in the Central New York community and on the Le Moyne College campus. Students are highly encouraged to use this list as a starting point, and also to seek out internships elsewhere.

5 Easy Steps to an Arts Administration Internship

Having completed or being in progress of completing AAD 201, browse internship listings below and/or find arts internships that interest you and align with your career goals.

CNY Arts is seeking interns to assist with executing a regional assessment of cultural assets and obstacles in our six county service area, to help facilitate the management of seven grant programs funded by Onondaga County and the New York State Council on the Arts, and assist with Board development. Interns will also provide support for the implementation of a comprehensive, regional arts marketing program including a Directory and website. For more information, email Mike Intaglietta.

These internships will give students an opportunity to study curriculum design and pedagogy through practical application. Interns will meet with the Educational Director on a regular basis to help develop mini lessons that meet targeted educational objectives. RedEd. Instructional Interns will also interact with and teach children and teens enrolled in the educational programming. Interns are expected to participate in the RedEd. staff development training/meetings. Contact: education@theredhouse.org.

These internships will give students looking for administrative experience an opportunity to work events, learn different processes for payment and registration, and assist in developing targeted marketing plans for special events and fundraisers. Event Management Interns will work closely with the Educational Director and cafe manager/front of house manager. Contact: education@theredhouse.org.

These internships give students an opportunity to learn what it takes to work in production. Students will utilize the skills they have developed in their program to help with set design and assembly and/or costume design and assembly. Several openings are available for students wishing to gain experience working as a board operator (sound and/or light). Contact: education@theredhouse.org.

Music Performance internships give music students an opportunity to gain experience by performing in a professional theatrical production, while working with a Musical Director with Broadway credits. The Musical Director will spend time developing their skills as performers. Students will learn the theory and history surrounding the musical, the rehearsal process, and what it is like to rehearse and perform alongside professional actors. Contact: education@theredhouse.org.

Costume Design internships give design students an opportunity to gain experience by working with Redhouse’s Resident Costume Designer. The Costume Designer will spend time developing their skills as designers. Students will also be asked to participate in helping with assembly, educating performers on their costume, run fittings, etc. Contact: education@theredhouse.org.

The Visual Arts Program at Le Moyne is seeking an intern for the spring semester 2014. The Internship with the Visual Arts Program would consist of a variety of tasks centering around assisting with organization, installation, and publicity for a series of gallery events and exhibitions. Some duties will include creation and preparation of materials for publicity such as posters, post cards, and press releases. The individual would preferably have strong computer skills in Adobe Suite, as well as an interest in working with student artists and engaging and encouraging interaction between the Le Moyne community and the Visual Arts. Contact: Prof. Zachary Dunn (dunnzs@lemoyne.edu)

The Syracuse Poster Project, established in 2001, brings together poets and Syracuse University artists to create an annual series of illustrated poetry posters for the poster kiosks of downtown Syracuse. The Project enlivens the downtown, strengthens the city’s sense of place, and spreads its value by selling poster prints, note cards and other poster-based products. Details are available at: www.posterproject.org.

For this project to support itself, it has to operate as an effective business, marketing and selling poster products, networking, and reaching patrons for support. We need interns who can volunteer for the summer, or for the fall or spring semesters. The opportunity provides experience for students interested in writing, graphic design, marketing and promotion, social networking, fund raising, or information technology.

We’re seeking interns for any of these tasks:

Campus outreach: Volunteers will reach out to student ambassadors, generate stories in
student publications, and help set up retail accounts at campus stores.

Advertising design: The Project relies on a dedicated class of illustration students to produce the annual poster series, but it also needs graphic designers to produce marketing and promotion materials and to develop new products. Volunteers will create brochures, postcards, note cards, print ads, web displays, souvenirs, and other poster-based products.

Website outreach: Our website includes an on-line store, which requires a variety of outreach to become effective. Volunteers will cultivate links with other websites, and help us promote our website via Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Website development and optimization: Our website needs refinement to generate more traffic. Using Google Analytics, volunteers will monitor traffic, and make refinements to tags, keywords and descriptions to give the site more visibility. They will also streamline existing features, add new features, and help manage an advertising campaign, using Google AdWords. Volunteers should be familiar with HTML coding and Adobe Dreamweaver. Also useful: knowledge of PHP.

Database support: The Project maintains databases with contact information for poets, artists and customers. Volunteers will update and integrate these records, and use them to produce various outreach materials. For distribution, we use the e-mail distribution service, Constant Contact. We develop databases in Microsoft Access.

Patron outreach: The Project will ask civic institutions, businesses, and individuals to become patrons by making an annual donation. Volunteers will develop a list of prospects, flesh out contact and prospect information, enter it into a database, and send solicitations to the prospects.

Poet and artist interviews: For each poster, the Project creates an accompanying information sheet, with photos of, and comments from, the poet and artist. Volunteers will interview the poets and artists and transcribe their comments. Mostly a spring semester activity.

Product development: The Project will take advantage of its large body of haiku by developing new outlets for this work, such as note cards and booklets of haiku. We will ask guest “curators” to select small collections of haiku around Central New York themes. Volunteers will help us work with curators, and design, produce, distribute, and market the booklets. We will also explore other haiku-related products.
Grant applications and resource development: The Project will apply for funding for various projects, including the development of note cards, the development of haiku booklets, and outreach to patrons. Volunteers will take existing grant applications and revise them for submission to other funders. This is a good opportunity for students interested in working for nonprofits, or interested in learning how to raise money for their own charitable endeavors. Volunteers will also reach out for a variety of financial and in- kind resources.

Work location: We work with interns and volunteers in the community arts room (Room 001) of the SU Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., downtown Syracuse. Interns can arrange transportation on their own, or take the Connective Corridor bus from the SU campus.

Time commitment: Internships are available for three, five or 10 hours a week, depending on the intern’s ambition and availability. Interns may seek academic credit through their respective colleges.

Scheduling: Interns work closely with the project’s founder and coordinator, Jim Emmons, typically on a weekday morning or afternoon. We do not work on weekends.
Qualifications: Although technical skills are important, we’re also interested broader skills and interests. We want people who appreciate art, poetry and culture, and who can join us in transforming Syracuse through public art. Beyond academics, what are your passions? Please share them with us.

How to apply: Make sure you have a good sense of what we do, both from reading this and exploring our website: www.posterproject.org. Then call or e-mail to set up an interview: Jim Emmons, at the Warehouse (315) 443-8781, or by e-mail, jim@posterproject.org.

USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) is the national association for designer, technicians, managers, and others involved behind the scenes in entertainment. The staff of 10 is located on Crouse Ave near Syracuse Stage. They serve over 4000 members in all 50 states and 24 nations. Interns will work on a variety of projects. They will also have the opportunity to attend the Annual Conference & Stage Expo (interns must provide travel, housing, and meals). This is not a requirement of any intern.

FINANCE
Finance interns will work with the Director of Finance and Human Resources on day to day Finance activities. Projects may include: research on tax exempt status, budget forecasting, preparing reports for board meetings or finance meetings. The intern will work closely with the entire office staff, but particularly finance and the Executive Director.

MARKETING AND PR
Interns in Marketing and PR will work with the Communications Department at USITT as they promote the activities of the Institute and the Institute in general. Projects in this department may include: Preparing a social media campaign, researching advertising outlets, managing a photo directory, research and writing.

ADMINISTRATION
Interns in Administration will work with the Executive Director on special projects and fund raising. These projects tend to be long range and may not reach realization during the term of the internship.

USITT will offer all interns the opportunity to assist with the daily operations of the Annual Conference March 26-29, 2014 in Fort Worth, Texas. While interns are responsible for their expenses, USITT will work to accommodate them in affordable rooms (if possible interns should share rooms to reduce costs). They will have access to all sessions and full conference passes during the week. This IS NOT a requirement of the internship.

Interested persons should contact Shannan Hoerger, Member Services Associate at Shannan@usitt.org with questions. To apply email a resume and cover letter to Shannan.

Join the Symphoria team and experience the excitement of a new arts nonprofit! Located in downtown Syracuse, Symphoria is Central New York’s new professional symphony orchestra.Founded in December 2012, Symphoria’s unique business model is a professional co-op, and musicians are core members of the organization.We present more than 50 concerts over the course of our season in venues large and small, locally and regionally, and we’re developing an expanded education and outreach program designed to inspire future audience members and musicians.

Symphoria is pleased to offer internship opportunities in many areas of our operation, including:

ØEDUCATION & OUTREACH, including communicating with area schools, assisting with the development and distribution of education materials, research in music education, development and analysis of program assessment tools, and on-site support for Symphoria education programs.

The successful candidate(s) will demonstrate excellent organization skills, computer literacy in all standard programs (graphics expertise welcome!), and a commitment to producing high quality work in a fast paced environment.Dependibility and attention to detail, as well as excellent communication and interpersonal skills, are fundamental to this position.Symphoria offers a flexible schedule, with a minimum commitment of 10 hrs/wk.

TO APPLY:Email resume, cover letter indicating your area(s) of interest, and contact information for TWO references to:cunderhill@ExperienceSymphoria.orgon or before December 2.Please include INTERN in the subject line.

WCNY offers a career exploration experience through our internship programs. College students may satisfy college curricula and earn credit by taking part in many WCNY departments.

Internships in the Television and Radio Production departments expose students to the delivery of content for WCNY’s five television channels and four radio content streams.

In Radio Production, students will work alongside WCNY on-air hosts and production assistants learning how to program, edit and produce content. They will also learn the fundamentals of public broadcasting by learning about the forms of content, the sources where this content is developed and from where it is delivered and the production expectations for air of WCNY and public broadcasting.

Interns participating in a Television Production internship will learn how television is produced at WCNY. Interns will work alongside the studio production crew as it develops content and programs in WCNY’s three television studios. They will gain experience watching studio productions from WCNY’s production control room and ingest areas, where studio programs are produced in real time, recorded, delivered to our universal content system and prepared for air.

TV Production interns will also work with producers and associate producers as they develop content from beyond WCNY, both through network delivered content and remote field productions and shoots. They will be exposed to the fundamentals of videography, content editing and visual storytelling.

WCNY’s mission is to educate, entertain and inspire our viewers and listeners. We’re committed to recruiting, developing and retaining a talented workforce that is dedicated to that mission and giving back to a community that generously supports us.

WCNY offers a vibrant, challenging and fast-paced workplace where teamwork and individual initiative are encouraged and valued. We promote an environment that welcomes different perspectives, backgrounds and life experiences, and we foster appreciation of that diversity and mutual respect among our staff.

Intern will work closely with the curatorial team and assist in all curatorial duties, including research on permanent collection, exhibitions, publications, loans, art handling, database management and object inventories. Contact: Everson Museum of Art. For more information about the museum, visit www.everson.org.

Intern will gain a broad understanding of the business operations of a museum and fundraising. Focus on revenue generation including special events, grant writing and retail sales. Contact: Everson Museum of Art. For more information about the museum, visit www.everson.org.

Intern will research exhibitions and organize workshops for children and families. Oversee programming for the Art Zone; create educational and promotional literature and content; and participate in general educational programming and departmental operations. Contact: Everson Museum of Art. For more information about the museum, visit www.everson.org.

Intern will develop promotional campaigns in support of Everson exhibitions, programs and special events. Hands on opportunity to create PR and marketing plans; develop press releases, write articles and website copy; coordinate coverage with media; and design support pieces. Contact: Everson Museum of Art. For more information about the museum, visit www.everson.org.

Intern will assist with the successful execution of marketing/advertising plans and fund raising activities in support of the summer musical theatre series. The intern will be involved in a variety of tasks from guerilla marking to collaboration with vendors including: creating press releases, executing social media plans, creating sponsorship and donor events, writing newsletter copy, and assisting with project coordination. For more information, contact Emily Thomas.

Experience gained in major event planning and production. Strong computer skills required in MS Office suite. Willingness to take on any task needed in preparation of major 3 day outdoor music festival and out-reach program. Includes clerical office duties, assistance in media and communications and on-site operations for duration of festival. Highly administrative position. Requires lifting, loading and unloading, and long hour on your feet. Mid-June thru Mid-August required. Contact Bob Rogers for further information.

The Society for New Music is 501c3 new music organization (year-round) governed by a board of approx. 50 regional professionals who donate their time to produce concerts, recordings, weekly radio program, newsletter, website, listserve, and composers in the schools. An intern would have the opportunity to work with various board members to assist with selling ads, drafting press releases, writing personal interest stories on Rising Stars performers or composers, assist with Facebook, Twitter & the listserve, complete online calendar listings, and design flyers &/or posters (if interested). Excellent writing skills and the ability to complete projects on time are important. May also choose to help with concert set-up, or in other activities in this team effort to communicate the Society’s activities to the general public.

Working closely with Music program and VPA faculty and staff, intern will perform a variety of duties associated with the operation of the college's music program. Duties will include (but not be limited to) event planning, maintenence of music equipment, preparation of sheet music for student music ensembles, guest artist hospitality, maintaining music program databases, and archiving music posters, programs, audio and video recordings. Contact: Travis Newton, director of music.

This internship would involve the student in all facets of the Festival’s summer concert activities, which include interaction with musicians, volunteers, board members, staff, ticket buyers and donors. The project will also help to assure smooth concert production for a 16-concert season in the month of August.

The Festival intern will be expected to efficiently handle correspondence and special requests from musicians, volunteers, staff and board members. The duties will include: box office activities such as processing mail, phone and website ticket orders; assist in all aspects of publicity and marketing; assist in the production of the season program book; assist in arranging musician housing and special needs; and problem solving for concert production.

Festival interns will work with the Festival database and website, assist with developing and distributing marketing and fundraising materials and work on special projects including receptions, benefits and our children’s concert series. Contact: Susan Mark, Executive Director. More information: www.skanfest.org

An internship at Syracuse Children’s Chorus, will provide opportunities to work and learn in a professional, nurturing arts management environment. Interns will hone their professional skills and be exposed to professional networking during their tenure. SCC internships are unpaid, offer flexible schedules and run concurrent with the University/College semester system.

Chorus management interns will assist the Artistic Director and the Operations Manager with planning, preparation and execution of chorus rehearsals and performances. The intern will have the opportunity to assist with the following tasks (but not limited to): putting together pertinent information distributed to choristers, creating and maintaining a detailed rehearsal/performance calendar for each of the ensembles, organizing the music library,. Communicating logistical information to choristers’ families via emails, phone calls and mailings, providing research materials for various administrative and/or artistic projects: including development, maintaining SCC’s choristers’ database, coordinating auditions for incoming students and providing concert support for SCC’s self-produced concerts and public appearances including PR and marketing. For more information,

Working with Theatre and VPA faculty and staff, intern will be responsible for creating and managing a workable operating system to track loans and returns of Theatre program costume and prop items. Intern will oversee all aspects of the transaction, including billing and customer service, tracking and maintenance of items, and policy and procedure for repairing or replacing damaged items. Contact: Joel McKissick, VPA operations manager.

Interns are a valued part of our team and will handle a variety of projects to support the mission of the department of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA) to present our college events at the highest standards possible. The intern will help to prepare and implement marketing strategies, assist with special event planning and organization, contribute and help maintain/enhance social media and web presence, perform project-specific marketing and communications outreach, help with online photo gallery and video gallery, design & produce graphic art for posters, emails, website and other marketing items, and support team administrative needs when needed (including data entry, filing, mass mailings, schedule coordination and taking and preparing meeting notes).

Potential candidates would need to be willing to commit at least 10 hours per week (flexible structure, broken out into 3 or 4 days per week), have excellent written, oral and interpersonal communication skills, excellent attention to detail, and demonstrated computer, website, and social media skills. Applicants with specific interest in the performing arts and experience in marketing, communications, graphic design, and web strategies are preferred. Contact: Joel McKissick, VPA operations manager.